Description
The rarest things on Earth were formed by the most ordinary processes, repeated for eons. Five specimens chosen for their extraordinary ages: a 4.56-billion-year-old chondrite meteorite (older than Earth), a 2.5-billion-year-old banded iron formation (evidence of the first oxygen), a 380-million-year-old trilobite (ancient arthropod), a 50-million-year-old amber piece (Eocene resin with inclusions), and a 200-million-year-old ammonite from the Jurassic seas. Deep time made tangible.
This specimen originates from Global, one of the world’s most significant localities for this type of material. Collectors and scientists have drawn from this region for generations, and for good reason: the combination of geological conditions here produces specimens of exceptional quality and clarity.
Every specimen is unique. Photographs approximate the visual experience, but the real thing — its weight, its luster under a raking light, the way it catches the corner of your eye — can only be experienced directly.
